23 January 2009
Scott & White Healthcare Selects GE Centricity Business
Largest multi-specialty practice in Texas supports double-digit growth strategy with market-leading solutions
Barrington, IL, January 23, 2009 – GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, today announced that core solutions in the Centricity® Business suite have been chosen by Scott & White Healthcare (Temple, Texas). Following a careful selection process, Scott & White expanded their existing relationship with GE Healthcare, and will implement the Centricity Business Patient Access, Physician Revenue Cycle Management and Business Intelligence solutions across their enterprise to support their focus on patient satisfaction and customer service, patient access, clinical integration, productivity, and revenue cycle operations.
GE Healthcare’s Centricity Business portfolio is installed at a majority of the academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks in the U.S. The powerful suite of solutions will provide Scott & White with flexible, workflow-focused tools to manage cash flow, improve patient satisfaction, and quickly access performance data across the enterprise. The Centricity Business platform will enable connectivity across many applications within Scott & White, including its’ electronic medical record (EMR), the GE Centricity Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), and various clinical care applications.
“In our 110-year history, the physicians of Scott & White have built a nationally-acclaimed healthcare organization that is committed to patient-centered care at every level,” said Alfred Knight, M.D, CEO of Scott & White Healthcare. “In GE Healthcare, we see the ability to support our clinical vision and mission with interoperable patient access and financial management systems that will create a foundation for our future growth. With their commitment to enabling connectivity across multiple existing vendors, we look forward to GE Healthcare’s leadership and support throughout the implementation of the Centricity Business applications.”
“In an increasingly complex healthcare market, the leadership of Scott & White clearly recognized the need to bring in solutions that will help them maintain and improve the financial health of their business,” stated James M. Corrigan, Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare. “For more than 35 years, we’ve helped customers drive business performance in support of their clinical mission. By using Centricity Business to enhance patient access and solve some of the organization’s most difficult billing challenges, Scott & White can continue to support their mission of patient-centric clinical and teaching excellence well into the future. We are extremely proud to have been selected by Scott & White as a strategic partner.”
The 6th largest integrated group practice model in the nation, Scott & White operates the largest multi-specialty practice in Texas, with more than 750 physicians and scientists who care for patients at multiple Scott & White locations. Hospital locations include the flagship Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, a 660-bed tertiary/quaternary facility, and recently-opened hospitals located in Round Rock and Temple, Texas. Scott & White Clinic includes a large multi-specialty clinic on the main campus in Temple, and twenty-seven regional clinics throughout Central Texas. Scott & White physicians treated more than 1.7 million patient encounters in 2008. Listed as a perennial “Top-100 Hospital” and “Top-15 Major Teaching Hospital” by Thomson Reuters, Scott & White is investing in integrated technologies that will serve the needs of their rapidly-growing patient population while supporting recent double-digit percent volume and revenue increases across the enterprise.
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